Soundscape #98: “Drama Is Life With The Dull Bits Cut Out” — Alfred Hitchcock
August 29th, 2008Watching movies has become such an indispensable part of city lives that one has to wonder what people actually do before the silver screen was invented. Somehow reading a book together just isn’t as communal as watching a movie. Can you imagine what people on dates do if movies do not exist?
Poster of Battleship Potemkin
Movies are generally a good idea, I think. There’s a certain magnetism involved when watching a movie; it can be the worst.movie.ever but it’s like watching a train wreck sometimes: you just can’t pull your eyes away. Like most people, I have a pretty good idea of what kind of movies I like and don’t (more Linklater than Bruckheimer). But sometimes it’s nice to be surprised by something you’ve never thought you’d like. For example, I would usually consider violent movies to be all brawn, no brain, look ma, I’m a hero type but shoot ‘em up was really pretty good. I guess most movies do fit in some sort of genre but the movies that don’t are probably the ones most worth watching.
Playlist:
1. (0:00) Dialogue - Zed’s Dead (Pulp Fiction)
2. (0:15) Snow Patrol - How To Be Dead (Wicker Park)
3. (3:37) Urge Overkill - Girl, You’ll Be A Woman Soon (Pulp Fiction)
4. (6:45) Aimee Mann & Michael Penn - Two Of Us (I Am Sam)
5. (10:16) Gin Blossoms - Till I Hear It From You (Empire Records)
6. (14:03) Kevin Shields - City Girl (Lost In Translation)
7. (17:50) Sufjan Stevens - Chicago (Little Miss Sunshine)
8. (23:59) The Beta Band - Dry The Rain (High Fidelity)
9. (30:04) The Martinis - Free (Empire Records)
10. (34:31) Nancy Sinatra - Bang Bang (My Baby Shot Me Down) (Kill Bill Vol 1)
11. (37:13) Dialogue - Ezekiel 25-17 (Pulp Fiction)
August 29th, 2008 at 12:27 pm
Cool selection. Quite a few Tarantino movies represented. He’s got an uncanny sense for music, even if his direction isn’t as inspired these days…